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As I foresaw, Cannonier's intensity made the difference but he also was in great condition. Vettori too tough for his own good, tonight.

Great comebacks by Allen and Onama, in two exciting back-and-forth bouts between young talents.

Poor Tafa...

Emmett all heart and always answering back, Topuria showed top contender maturity.

Benoit Saint Denis was a surprise. Lipski/Gatto was extremely close.

Impressive ground dominance by Grant Dawson against Ismagulov.

Too much, too soon for the untested Abus, who did a good first round but looked gassed and rocked as soon as Strickland got focused. Back to the drawing board.

Jon "Bones" Jones is set to defend his UFC heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic at #UFC295 on November 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Dana White announced Friday.

Donald Trump was a guest of honour yesterday of Dana White at ringside for UFC 290 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Great card with some cracking fights, especially Pantoja vs Moreno. How one judge had it 49-46 for Moreno when it looked like Pantoja had clearly won at minimum 3 rounds is beyond me. Looks like bad judging isn't the sole domain of boxing or figure skating. That judge should be banned from ever judging again. Looks like he was on the take with that scorecard.

Du Plesis was impressive in stopping Robert Whitaker last night though I was not a fan of his leaving the cage to go shake hands with Diaper Don though. Adesanya showed himself to be the low class lowlife he is yet again in the post fight meeting with Dricus Du Plesis to hype a potential match between them.

Dan Hooker vs. Jalin Turner turned into a great back and forth fight with Hooker just pulling it out in the last round for the split decision win. Great fight.

In the main event Volkanovski stopped Rodriguez and showed that he is without a doubt the greatest featherweight of all time. Can't see anyone at the weight being a challenge for him atm. He needs to move to 155 and challenge Makhachev again.

All in all the best fight card so far this year.

DDP nullified any expectation and that is a great thing about MMA, I hope he faces Adesanya soon.

Great showing by British MMA yesterday, Aspinall is contender material right after Pavlovich.

UFC 291: Poirier vs Gaethje 2

This weekend!

Hopefully we get Crawford-Spence done by 5am.. then enjoy this one later

Poirier-Gaethje 2 is guaranteed fireworks. Poirier is one of my favourites.

I was so hyped-up for this card (don't overlook the stylish match-up of Thompson vs. Pereira, and the sluggery we are going to see between Poatan and Blacho), then I remembered I had also Crawford vs. Spence to watch and now I am trying to coordinate the planets and my eyes to watch both at the same time.

Kev Holland showing off his newfound grappling skills, doing a lot better than ever

Poor Tony...

Derrick Lewisvidal

Blacho gassed up too early and it didn't help him to get the edge, unfortunately.

Absolute Karate Kid moment by Gaethje.

Impressive power by Lucindo.

Rountree chopped down a bigger guy in his fourth consecutive KO win, sheesh

That was impressive from Sean O'Malley last night. I thought Sterling would try to take him down and wrestle but he didn't and it cost him. You can't fight Sugar Sean trying to outstrike him as his punching is just too accurate and powerful but having said that I actually think Chito stands a better chance against O'Malley standing than trying to wrestle him as his jab is very stiff, accurate and powerful. Bad strategy from Aljamain.

Thanks to Suga for sparing us that Aljo GOAT talk.

Talking about today's card, Rinya Nakamura has insane speed on the ground and looks a heck of a promising talent.

Good comeback by Giga.

What a KO by Max, as soon as Zombie was going for broke

Saint Denis/Moises had one heck of a first-round and Benoit ruled.

Main Card (ESPN+ PPV at 10 p.m. ET)

Israel Adesanya vs. Sean Strickland
Tai Tuivasa vs. Alexander Volkov
Manel Kape vs. Felipe dos Santos
Justin Tafa vs. Austen Lane
Tyson Pedro vs. Anton Turkalj

Prelims (ESPNews/ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET)

Carlos Ulberg vs. Da Un Jung
Jack Jenkins vs. Chepe Mariscal
Jamie Mullarkey vs. John Makdessi
Nasrat Haqparast vs. Landon Quinones

Early Prelims (ESPN+ at 6:30 p.m. ET)

Mike Mathetha vs. Charlie Radtke
Shane Young vs. Gabriel Miranda
Kevin Jousset vs. Kiefer Crosbie